I was wondering if any one of you can give me some sort of advice of creating a skeleton of a program. I've never programmed in Perl before and haven't been back to programming for the last 5 years! So I was wondering how to set up a program that will extract info out of two SQL tables (the name from one and a date from the other) and also info from an Access table (the address) and query it so that it takes the matching selected info and spits it out to a document (say something like a notepad base). Then to get a bit more complicated, have it also set up to send out the collected info out to selected people through an exchange server (via e-mail)... I mentioned to my employer that I've programmed before and beginning to study VB6, so they gave me the above challenge...